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Stress Costs U.S. $300 Billion a Year
jburroug writes "A new study, as reported in the New York Times claims that the stress of the modern always-on work environment is taking a far greater toll on the health of workers than previously believed, to the tune of $300 billion in lost productivity and increased health care costs in the U.S. alone."
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Ha ha, you got your faggot ass banned, Sir Haxalot! No more karma whoring for you, time to go back to giving head for crack.
I'm posting anonymously because I don't care to weed through all of the knee-jerk, out of touch, liberal responses. And because the moderators in that camp will surely mod this as a troll or flamebait.
/. know-nothings to trot out their juvenile opinions of how the economy works. From their skewed view of corporate greed to their twisted vision of capitalism, most of the posts in these sorts of blog entries completely miss the point that corporations in the US are run and employ people who, for the most part, live in the same place. The CEO and the line worker live in the same town. The corporation IS the people! It doesn't matter if it's a 10 person shop or a 10,000 employee factory...for the most part, the people who make up the corporations reflect the corporation and that reflection isn't too damn bad. But, like everything in this world, there are a few bad apples. They pop up, get their share of attention, then go away. Yeah, we hear plenty of news about them, then small-minded, knee-jerk, left-wing whiners assume that they represent the mainstream. Well...guess what? There's a small percentage of people out there who are murderers. Does that make all of us killers?
/. writer must be somewhere around 14. And the average /. writer can't seem to make an independent decision on his or (in a few cases) her own. Wake up! Look around and see who is responsible for billions of dollars of philanthropic giving! Check with your neighbor (or your coworker) and ask them what they'd think if their employer (the "greedy" corporation) got the comeuppance they "deserve" and got put out of business.
This is yet another opportunity for a bunch of
I swear, the average age of a typical
Yeah, this is yet another typical story in a blog full of people who are completely out of touch with what's going on in the world. Congratulations. You're all working together to lower the perceived collective intelligence and free-thinking capability of geeks everywhere.